Baston Family
Genealogy

Scrapbook Page for Francis BASTON

Marriage Register Francis Baston & Sarah Brown St Mary
Islington

St Mary Islington Francis Baston Bachelor & Sarah Brown
Spinster Married in this Church by Banns this 16th day of September in the year
1810 by me J Rose Curate. Witnesses:Mary Ann Larcombe & John Powell

Royal
Hospital Chelsea record of his service in the 15th Dragoons (Light) 1805-1819.
Discharged age 34. Born Greys, Oxfordshire (he was baptised 22nd January 1786 in
Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire). HISTORY OF THE DRAGOONS Light dragoons have
always been rather special troops. They were first raised in the middle of the
Eighteenth Century for reconnaissance and patrolling - in other words scouting -
but soon acquired a reputation for courage and dash in the charge. Originally,
each regiment of cavalry formed a light troop, but so successful was the idea
that whole regiments were formed. The 15th Light Dragoons were the first ever
(1759), and others quickly followed including the Eighteenth and Nineteenth. The
Thirteenth, raised as heavy dragoons (mounted infantrymen) as early as 1715,
were also converted to the light role. These light dragoon regiments fought all
over the world in the half-century that followed, notably in India and North
America. They distinguished themselves under the Duke of Wellington in Spain and
Portugal in the Napoleonic wars, and three of them were present at the battle of
Waterloo (1815).(www.army.mod.uk). So Francis was probably injured during the
Battle Of Waterloo 1815.